Money quote:
'Songdo is a new kind of city: Completely artificial, painstakingly designed, without a hint of decay or poverty, and nearly empty. It's a human desert.
City of Logan's Run made real.
Isn’t this what that clown, Gates, wants to do in the Arizona desert? Must be nice to be worth that much, to be able to pour that much cash into a hole in the desert. I wonder if he’s going to be forced to set aside 30% or so, to low income housing and implement the obama scheme to have his voters move into the ‘burbs, to temper the voting pool and destroy neighborhoods and property values...
https://nypost.com/2016/05/08/obamas-last-act-is-to-force-suburbs-to-be-less-white-and-less-wealthy/
I hope so. If he doesn’t, I hope HUD and the DOJ sue the dogsh*t out of him and force him to do it. All those liberal, hipsters will quickly be on their way back to SanFran, Seattle or wherever Amazon builds their new HQ, very quickly.
“Utopia” means nowhere. It’s appropriate that a nowhere have no one in it.
Uh, not the northeast. Northwest.
Could be attractive for robot vacationers.
Building an entire city centered upon “technology” as it exists at the time is a recipe for obsolescence. That said, it looks pleasant enough. I suspect cost has something to do with it, that or the fools went with Microsoft and people just got sick of invasive ads, kludgey interfaces and getting BSOD’ed when they’re trying to get ready to go to work.
This is a hoot! I had no idea that city was being built. The “Internet of Things”(IoT) or “Internet of Everything” (IoE) is becoming all the rage. If you don’t know, that’s where everything talks to everything - Your refrigerator keeps it’s own inventory, and sends grocery orders to Amazon, your thermostat calls your phone and lets you know your A/C is not performing well, cars drive themselves, traffic sensors optimize red lights, etc...
The technology is very promising, but it’s being pushed, not demanded. It’s basically a solution looking for a problem! I’ve worked on projects with some of this stuff, and the brainstorming sessions are very interesting, but the presentations to the finance department or to the Board are DOA... This article shows why.
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